Indiana State Police help drive Trump’s crackdown on immigrant truckers, records show

Gurpreet Singh was northbound on Interstate 69 outside of Muncie, Indiana on an early morning in June when one of his semi-truck tires popped and he veered off the road.

He went to the hospital, got stitches and was preparing to leave. But he said he didn’t get far. Court records show Indiana State Police arrested Singh at the hospital for immigration violations.

The police handed him over to ICE, and the federal agents shipped him south to the Daviess County jail in western Kentucky. Singh, through an interpreter, recently recounted the arrest and his subsequent incarceration for the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting…

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